Nezami

Nezami of Ganja raised the romantic epic to its Persian summit. His Khamsa — the Five Treasures, including Leyli and Majnun and Khosrow and Shirin — set the standard for narrative poetry across the Persianate world for centuries.

Leyli and Majnun became the archetype of devoted love from Anatolia to India — a Persian story retold in dozens of languages, and never surpassed.